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actaeon169on Google Groups ending support for Usenet

Good to know. I haven't looked in years.

actaeon169on Google Groups ending support for Usenet

Long live the Scary Devil Monastery.

actaeon169on These are the oldest stone tools ever found in the United States

FWIW, I took a cultural anthropology course in 2003 from a local community college in the Bay Area. We were taught the "Clovis First" theory was on its way out and I remember "20,000 years ago" being the newer thinking.

actaeon169on Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook

The trouble with democracy is, and always was, the demos

actaeon169on Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?

Have your team announce that is a purely temporary solution and will be replaced in an upcoming sprint.

actaeon169on Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (2018)

It's an easy mistake to make.

actaeon169on Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”

Although more complicated than just "provider bans speech", this was an interesting case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Technology_Center_v.....

actaeon169on Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

As I recall, COBRA is pretty expensive.

actaeon169on Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars

I really feel like we should be teaching them how to ride little bicycles or take public transportation instead.

actaeon169on The Fry’s Era

http://homepage.smc.edu/engfer_mark/frys.htm

actaeon169on Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?

Interestingly, 'passion' comes from a Latin root meaning 'to suffer" or "to endure".

actaeon169on 61% of “Entry-Level” Jobs Require 3+ Years of Experience

Passion comes from a Latin root meaning "to suffer". If you work in technology long enough, you will become passionate about it.

actaeon169on Why the Great Divide Is Growing Between Affordable and Expensive U.S. Cities

So, a small supply combined with a large demand creates higher prices? This new finding could revolutionize our understand of economics... we should study this further.

actaeon169on Parents of kids with rare disease found a promising drug

Clearly, I need to stop eating wheat.

actaeon169on CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents

The CEO at a very small company I worked for not too long ago made me do this when assigning phone extensions because "Having 4 digit extensions makes us look like a big company." The only people this would fool would probably need supervision to use a phone.

actaeon169on HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

The HP-28S

actaeon169on Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switch

http://onie.org/

For example:

http://www.edge-core.com/ProdDtl.asp?sno=425&AS4600-54T

http://www.edge-core.com/ProdDtl.asp?sno=423&AS5600-52X